Sunday, June 27, 2010

Trying To Give Back

More stiff caricaturesThese hotties would surely make Disney fans swoon in cartoon form.That Taylor girl really does have an interesting head, but I haven't quite nabbed it yet. It might be too unique for animation, though.Since anmated fairytales are in dire need of new designs for the lead romantic characters I thought I'd work on some. I am basing them on live action celebrities with proven hip appeal, because it would be immature to try to make something up out of nothing.

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I tried my hand at layout for the first time today after reading your email from yesterday, and I wasn't pleased with the results. The Kaspar drawing came out messy and formless and sloppy. I have a few questions in my reply if you haven't read it yet.

These "stiff" caricatures look far better and livelier than the real people themselves. Combine Robert Pattinson's "hip" personality with Gene Kelly's classic charisma, and I think you'd have a multi-billion dollar hit movie. Make Taylor his girlfriend, with a few homages to the characters on the Beverly Hillbillies, and that Beiber kid the pesky Dennis the Menace next door who always ruins their dating plans, and you have the perfect movie for the young teenage girls.

Hey John, do you just freehand this stuff but try and pay close attention to the specific details, or do you try and come up with a shape (not a circle or an oval) that suggests the shape of their head and then try to draw through accordingly?

I am not sure if you said that for real, but that would actually be a great experiment if you do that, I mean, designing your Disney prince and princess so you can proof them that they could do different characters. That would be really interesting to see.

I don't think these celebrities have any appeal, and I believe their fans are the immature ones. Not sure if somebody should base their characters on them, but if it's just a way to draw real, specific head shapes I guess they serve the purpose.

At least some of them are good looking. The girl in the Twilight series is pretty but she seems so fragile and shy that I don't find her especially charismatic as a movie star.

Robert Pattinson is awesome. He knows Edward is a big jerk and that Stephenie Meyer is a dreadful Mary Sue writer. He has no emotional investment in these movies; he phones it in as Edward, collects his huge paycheck, and goes home. He's like Sir Alec Guinness. It's wonderful.

hey john, been loving these studies you've been posting.it's nice to see that you don't just assume being done after all, and mostly that you support manlyness.by the way. bothering you once more. it could be any of your characters! i love your cartoon girls.(hope you don't hate me yet)cheers!dog

Off-topic: I found this cool Ub Iwerks cartoon while looking at some animation blogs. It's from 1939, but it's still really funny, especially Mel Blanc's voice performance. Maybe you could add this to the post you did the other day. There's some great animation in this one.